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In a visit to Washington, Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva, president and CEO of Brazilian aircraft builder Embraer, sat down for a roundtable with editors from Aviation Week & Space Technology and sister publication ATW. Following are his remarks ...

After a remarkable 12-year boom, world aircraft industry output growth sputtered to a halt in 2016. The market fell 1.2% (in constant dollars) relative to 2015, the first aggregate decline since 2003. While military demand remains robust, most...

Ultrasonic machining, 3-D virtual-reality imaging, digital scanning and further advances in additive manufacturing are just some of the innovations OEMs are introducing for the factory of the future. But because many of their suppliers have not...

In 2016, China flew two new launch vehicles for the first time, orbited a space laboratory and sent men into space again after a three-year gap from their initial men-into-space milestone. The year also saw new probes arrive at Mars and Jupiter...

The Pentagon has awarded Lockheed Martin (IW500/25) $1.3 billion to continue production of the next batch of F-35s as negotiations drag on to finalize a huge contract worth up to $7.2 billion for 90 aircraft.
The $1.3 billion announced last ...

It’s been just three months since the U.S. Air Force declared the long-awaited F-35A ready for combat. But already the joint government-Lockheed Martin operation that manages the world’s largest fighter program has overcome a major hurdle, retu...